• Air date: 21 Sep '59 38 episodes
      Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series
  • List of Episodes (38)
    • 1. Protection

      21 Sep '59
      Two thugs selling protection, if you don't pay for protection, you're blown up and permanently out of business. Gunn is hired by Mother when she runs into problems with The Owl.
    • 2. Crisscross

      28 Sep '59
      Bank Manager Poole places smoke bombs throughout the bank and then cleans out the bank.
    • 3. Edge of the Knife

      05 Oct '59
      A distraught father is worried about his daughter, Ellen Majeski, who did time for four years as an accomplice in a robbery. Now after her release she has disappeared and her father hires Gunn to find her. The twist is that her father died when she was 4.
    • 4. The Comic

      12 Oct '59
      Convinced that his wife is trying to kill him, comedian Danny Holland comes to Peter Gunn for help.
    • 5. Death Is a Red Rose

      19 Oct '59
      John Alastair is a desperate man and has a problem, he has hired Burnett to kill him but changes his mind. Unfortunately Burnett doesn't see it that way.
    • 6. The Young Assassins

      26 Oct '59
      Charlie Mays is on Death Row and his seventeen year old son is heading down the same old road as his dad. Charlie asks Pete for help in saving his son from himself.
    • 7. The Feathered Doll

      02 Nov '59
      Plainsclothes policeman Jay Madigan is found knifed on the docks near the carnival. Pete undercovers that the Shooting Gallery at the carnival is smuggling something in the dolls, heroin.
    • 8. Kidnap

      16 Nov '59
      Lt. Jacoby is kidnapped, Pete goes looking for him and finds suspects at every turn.
    • 9. The Rifle

      23 Nov '59
      Janos Kolanski, an inventor goes to Pete for help. Apparently there is a faction after his plans, his invention a deadly rifle.
    • 10. The Game

      30 Nov '59
      Some jewels have been stolen, and an insurance man named Nickerman wants to pay the thieves to return them. So he hires Gunn to contact the crooks.
    • 11. The Price Is Murder

      07 Dec '59
      Two escaped convicts go after Peter Gunn, and the best way to do that is get his girl first.
    • 12. The Briefcase

      14 Dec '59
      Matthew Dunaway is killed on a train and his briefcase is stolen. Gunn is hired by Lavinia to find a man she claims is her husband and to find what is in the briefcase.
    • 13. Terror on the Campus

      21 Dec '59
      Dean Norse hires Pete to find out what is happening on the campus, the girls are terrified with lights flickering off every night and the ringing of the bell tower which hasn't rung in over twenty years as well as a mysterious presence.
    • 14. The Wolfe Case

      28 Dec '59
      Nancy Fowler is murdered and Pete is hired to find out why. He finds that it's a setup for a bitter wife married to a wealthy older man to get his money.
    • 15. Hot Money

      04 Jan '60
      Willie Coronado is found dead in the dryer of a laundry mat. He was one of the men involved in a daring bank robbery involving one million dollars. Louis hires Pete to find out who killed his partner and to cut a deal with the DA's office for his involvement.
    • 16. Spell of Murder

      11 Jan '60
      An attempt is made on Arnold Simpsons' life when he hires Gunn to find out who is blackmailing him. He tells Pete about a dig he was on with Frank Victor and how he abandoned him when the cave collapsed. Gunn is sent to the Blue Pheasant to pick up a parcel for Simpson and delivers it to him and is stunned when it goes off.
    • 17. The Grudge

      18 Jan '60
      An escapee from a mental hospital gives the Mayor an ultimatum, either commit suicide or a bomb will be detonated at the Civic Centre.
    • 18. Fill the Cup

      25 Jan '60
      Getty hires Gunn to help him to stop drinking, his daughter that he hasn't seen in fifteen years is coming to see him tomorrow and he wants to be sober for her. He begs Pete, tells him he's his last hope.
    • 19. See No Evil

      01 Feb '60
      Cliffy, the blind newspaper vendor is afraid of Brenners who was convicted and escaped after his sentence has been given. He hires Pete to protect Cliffy from Al Brenners and his sidekick Springer.
    • 20. Sentenced

      08 Feb '60
      Gunn is "Sentenced" to death for the murder of a clerk, but he escapes jail.
    • 21. The Hunt

      15 Feb '60
      Two-thirds of this episode consists of a chase sequence without any dialog. Pete hears that he's marked for murder, but he refuses police protection. The killer finds Gunn alone in his apartment and forces him to take a nighttime ride into the desert.
    • 22. Hollywood Calling

      29 Feb '60
      Actor Frankie Burns is murdered on the set of a new movie. Gunn finds out that the crime was committed to cover up an old crime.
    • 23. Sing a Song of Murder

      07 Mar '60
      Arnie Kelton musician and ex-convict, asks Gunn to investigate his wife's death.
    • 24. The Long, Long Ride

      14 Mar '60
      Someone is out to kill a former underworld boss, Joe Webber, back home after serving a lengthy prison term. Out of touch with the underworld, Webber hires Peter Gunn to find the identity of his would-be killer.
    • 25. The Deadly Proposition

      21 Mar '60
      Employee Arthur Cole accuses his boss of killing his wife and hires Gunn to prove it. There is a twist and it leads to the suspect being Cole instead.